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1 Paralyzed lion: A 3-year-old, 310-pound lion named Ariel is the focus of an Internet campaign to raise money needed to treat the paralysis that struck him a year ago, depriving him of the use of his four legs. Veterinarian Livia Pereira said the $11,500 needed every month to pay for treatment comes from donations from nearly 35,000 people who have clicked the "like" button on Ariel's Facebook page. Pereira, who is caring for Ariel in Sao Paulo, Brazil, said that the lion's white blood cells are attacking his healthy cells due to a degenerative disease affecting his medulla, a portion of the brain stem involved in motor functions.

2 Egypt police: Egypt's transitional military government announced the early retirement of more than 600 senior police officers Wednesday in an effort to mollify thousands of protesters at a 6-day-old sit-in in Cairo's Tahrir Square who have been demanding swifter justice for those complicit in wrongdoing under then-President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in February. Officials of the Interior Ministry said 18 police generals and nine other senior officers were forced into early retirement because they were accused of killing protesters during the 18-day uprising that forced Mubarak from power. For the same reason, 54 lower-ranking officers were shifted to jobs where they no longer interact with civilians.

3 Prison uprising ends: A monthlong prison standoff between armed inmates and Venezuela's National Guard ended peacefully Wednesday as the government transferred more than 800 prisoners out of a notorious jail on the outskirts of the capital, Caracas. The standoff had been resolved after long talks with the rebelling inmates, including a guarantee from authorities to the prisoners that they would not be harmed. Critics have said that Venezuela's prisons are overcrowded and rife with crime.

4 Church sex scandal: A new investigation into the Catholic Church's chronic cover-up of child abuse found Wednesday that a rural diocese and its bishop ignored Irish church rules requiring all suspected molestation cases to be reported to police - and the Vatican encouraged this concealment. The government, which ordered the probe into 1996-2009 cover-ups in the County Cork Diocese of Cloyne, warned that parishes across Ireland could pose a continuing danger to children's welfare today given Cloyne's claims to be following church child-protection policy while actually ignoring it.

5 Afghan attack: A suicide bombing killed five French soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, representing one of France's largest one-day losses of the war. The attack took place in Kapisa province.

6 Drug war arrest: Mexico's federal police have caught the top hit man for the Knights Templar drug gang in the western state of Michoacan, authorities said Wednesday. Federal police allege that suspect Javier Beltran Arco oversaw murders for the meth-trafficking gang. Beltran Arco is known by the nickname "El Chivo," or the Goat.

7 Chavez to undergo chemotherapy: Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said for the first time Wednesday that he expects to undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment, providing the clearest picture yet of his prognosis three weeks after undergoing surgery in Cuba that removed a baseball-size tumor. Chavez still did not reveal what sort of cancer is involved.